[NYTr] 2nd Congress on Pneumology Opens in Cuba

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Congress on Pneumologic Diseases Open in Cuba

Havana, Nov 22 (acn) The Second Congress Pneumocaribe 2007 opened 
Thursday in the Cuban eastern province of Santiago de Cuba and will run 
until November 24.

Some of the main topics of debate at the event include the prevention 
and treatment of respiratory diseases such as bronchial asthma, 
tuberculosis and pulmonary cancer.

Specialists from across the island will discuss risk factors, therapies 
and new medications developed to fight respiratory ailments.

The meeting, which takes in round tables, lectures and posters, aims to 
promote scientific knowledge among the Cuban experts in the field of 
pneumologic diseases.

Pneumocaribe 2007 is sponsored by the Cuban Scientific Society of 
Pneumology and its provincial branch in Santiago de Cuba.